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by NoSorryCannot 1853 days ago
I can see the business appeal of the prospect of being able to skim off the top of second hand sales while maintaining a thread of DRM enforcement along the way, but it's pretty cynical and at the expense of consumers.

Most other uses, like whether some particular series of bits have been blessed by a particular person and to the benefit of whom, seem to already have been solved by the nonrepudiation of digital signatures.

It appears to me that the distributed and public properties of the block chain are not being used for good here.

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> being able to skim off the top of second hand sales

Steam's current strategy of "no second hand sales" (but better sales and distribution instead) really beats anything NFT has to offer and doesn't require forcing a blockchain and mintinv fees into the scenario.

If they wanted people to be able to resell titles while taking a cut, they could easily facilitate that now. Why would Valve turn to NFTs to solve that problem?